Ash-receptacle.



E. IVICCLURE.

ASH RECEPTACLE.

APPLlcAnoN FILED sPT.21,1915.

Lm 1 Pmnted Dee. 12,1916.

EDWARD MCCLURE, 0F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF UNE-HALF TO FRANKLN P. SMITH, 0F CHICGG, ILLINIS.

ASH-RECEPTACLE.

Application filed September 27, 1.915.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that l, EDWARD llrioCLUnn, a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State ot illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ash-Receptacles, ci which the -following is' a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to ash receptacles and its primary object is to provided a portable receptacle of improved construction for receiving ashes or other commodities which it is desired to convey from one place to another.

Another object is to provide an ash receptacle with means whereby the receptacle proper or box for containing the ashes or other commodities may be readily lowered to the ground or other surface upon which the device is supported in convenient position for the reception of the material to be carted away; and which may be readily and easily raised 'from said lowered position to a carrying position, and, while in such carrying position, may be easily tilted to discharge the co-ntents.

@ther objects and advantages will occur in the course of this speciication, and with all of said objects and advantages in view, this invention consists in the several novel features of construction, arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter fully set forth and particularly pointed out.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the drawing furnished herewith, in which Figure 1 is a side view of an ash receptacle embodying a simple form of the present invention, showing the box or receptacle in upright position in full lines, and in tilted or dumping position in dotted lines; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the ash receptacle, showing a part of the box broken out and showing the box in its lowered position resting upon the ground; Fig. 3 is an end view of the 'ash receptacle, looking in the direction of the arrow, 3, in Fig. 1; and Fig. 4t is a plan of a fragment of the handle of the ash receptacle.

Referring to said drawing, 10 designates a box or receptacle which may, if desired, be rectangular in form and open at the top; its bottom has oblique end-portions 11, extending up from a middle portion 12, as is clearly shown in Fig. 2. rlhis shape of bottom permits the box to be placed close to the axle without interference with its move- Specification of Letters Patent.

' ments to and from its lowered position.

Patented ft2, Mido..

Serial No. 52,792.

Said box or receptacle is supported upon a carriage, 13, comprising a frame, 14, an axle 15, secured thereto, and a pair of supporting wheels 16 mounted upon the ends ot the axle, 15. Said frame 14, comprises torwardly extending bars 17, connected at their forward ends by a cross-bar 18, which forms a handle for the carriage, and the rearward ends of said bars, 17, have upright posts or standards 19, upon the upper ends of which is pivotally sustained the box or receptacle by bo-lts, 20, that are secured t0 the box and project outward through the upright bars, 19, said bolts conveniently having nuts, 21, secured upon their outward threaded ends for connecting the parts together. lt desired, a strengthening band 22, may be tas tened to the sides and ends of the box, and the bolts, 20, may be secured to said band. The fulcrum or pivotal connection between the box and upright bars, 19, is considerably above the center of gravity of the box, in order that it may be suspended from said fulcruni in an upright manner. Connecting the rear end of the box with the cross-bar 18, of the handle, is a chain, 23, or the like, which passes between the bottom 12, oli the box and the axle, 15, of the carriage. Said chain may be attached to the box and handle by an eye-bolt, 24, secured to the box, and by a staple, 25, secured to the cross-bar 18, ot the handle. To the underside oit the bottoni, 12, are secured corrugated strips, 26, there being one on either side of the chain, 23, which strips serve to hold the bottoni slightly above the ground or other surface on which the ash-receptacle is supported.

In use, the handle of the carriage may be swung upward from the pulling position seen in full lines in Fig. 1, to an upright position, as shown in Fig. 2, and as a result thereof, the box is moved over the axle 15 to one side thereof and lowered to the ground. 1n this position, it may be readily filled with ashes or other commodities which it is desired lto carry from one place to another, and, when it is desired to move the device to soine other place, the handle is swung down in the direction of the arrow indicated thereon in Fig. 2, thereby raising the box and swinging it over the top of the axle, as clearly indicated in solid lines in Fig. 1. ln this position, the fulcrum of the Y sired to discharge the contents of the box,

and the chain may be grasped and pulled forward, thereby tilting the box upon its fulcrum until the open tophas been swung Y downward, whereupon the contents of the box will readily be discharged therefrom. After the contents of the receptacle have been discharged, the chain may be released, whereupon the box will resume its upright position by reason of the fact that the center of gravity thereof is below the fulcrum upon the carriage frame.

This device has been found vparticularly useful Vin carting ashes away from a furnace orV other heating plants, in which case it is frequently necessaryto carry the ashes up a Hight of stairs, and the device has been designed particularly to facilitate the work of conveying ashes upthe Hight of stairs.

Vhile I have shown and described the device. as an ash receptacle, it is perfectly evident thatit may be used fo r many other purposes where the desideratum is to transport commodities from one location to another and discharge them.

More or less variation of the exact details of construction shown and described 1s possible, without departing from the spirit of this invention, and l desire, therefore, not to limit myself to the particular form shown and described, but intend in the following to point out all of the invention disclosed herein.

I claim as new Letters Patent:

A device of the character described, coniprising in combination a tilting carriage having two straight handle bars unobstructed on their lower sides and connected at the front by a cross bar, said bars being formed at the rear with posts which stand upright in the pulling position of the carriage, an axle connecting the bars and secured thereto at the places where the posts join them, and wheels mounted on said axle, and a rectangular box pivot-ally sustained at the upper ends of said posts directly above the axle,-said box extending down to within a short distance from the axle and having downwardly converging side portions arranged to clear the axle when the box is tilted, and a fiat bottom portion narrower than the top, the parts being so proportioned and arranged that when the carriage is tilted upward to lower the box to the ground, the handle stands to one side of and desire to secure by the box in van u Jrirht Dosition.

EDWARD MCCLURE.

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' Washington, D. C. 

